Walter Hutchens’ Blog
News, information and commentary about law and technology relating to China.
Author: Walter Hutchens teaches business law and principles of international business at Whitworth University.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • International Law • Science & Technology Law • International • Asia • Law Professor • Business Law
Recent Posts from Walter Hutchens’ Blog
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Peking University School of Transnational Law
This is an exciting development: a US-style law school in China. According to reports they’ll teach in English, have already hired a highly-experienced US dean and will seek ABA accreditation. I have a coffee-table book…
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NPR on Growth of Private Higher Education in China
Good story. SHARETHIS.addEntry();
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Huh? KFC Drive-thru Business in China?
The CNBC announcer interviewing Jim Cramer today made a bone-headed comment. Cramer said it’s a good idea to buy YUM as a China play. That’s true. Cramer then said KFC’s business in China probably won’t…
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Are Business Schools taking their Own Courses before Going to China?
In the current issue of Business Week a short article describes some of the difficulties confronting non-Chinese universities that try to operate MBA programs in China. I talked with Alison Damast, the journalist who wrote…
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Sichuan Earthquake
I do not usually react to global disasters here—there are, alas, so many, and usually I have little to offer beyond banal expressions of sympathy, outrage, angst . . . The tragic earthquake in…
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New Rules on Chinese Listed Company Restructurings
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) last week released new rules on the “material asset restructuring” of listed companies. The China Securities Journal reports on the new rules (in Chinese) here. The CSRC titled the…
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Which City will be China’s Financial Center?
Earlier this month Beijing’s municipal government published a “guiding opinion” on promoting the development of the financial sector in the city (a Chinese press report about it is here, and one with more background here).…
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WSJ on China Stock Market Decline
Front page of Saturday’s WSJ: “China Stocks, Once Frothy, Fall by Half In Six Months,” with James Areddy and Craig Karmi reporting (avail here, sub. req’d) . SHARETHIS.addEntry();
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More US Fast Food Expansion in China
In my international business classes I often play excerpts from Yum Brands’ quarterly conference calls with financial analysts. They illustrate nicely how something as prototypically American as the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut…
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Video Games vs. Conventional Education
This blog entry from a Chinese teacher offers some thoughtful ideas about how video games, which she calls a category of internet addiction (most gamers in China play online games, not console-based games), differ from…